The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 129
This is always very dangerous, and it was a great wonder they did not put their eyes out; but somehow or other they managed to escape.
Who acts: This, game, children · What happens: be, not put out, manage, escape · To what, where: great wonder, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, game, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 dangerous | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dangerous | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 dangerous | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 dangerous | advmod |
| 5 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wonder | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wonder | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wonder | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wonder | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wonder | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wonder | amod |
| 12 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dangerous | parataxis |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 put | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 put | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 put | advmod |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wonder | acl:relcl |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 put | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 put | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 managed | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 somehow | cc |
| 22 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 26 managed | advmod |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 other | cc |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 somehow | conj |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 managed | nsubj |
| 26 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dangerous | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 escape | mark |
| 28 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 managed | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dangerous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | This | always, dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | game | a great wonder | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not put out | past · do-support | children = child | children's eyes | out property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Goal | |||
| 4 | manage | past | children = child | somehow property | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | escape | to-infinitive | children = child not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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